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There's a lot of exaggeration that goes on with certain fans of postfix systems when they talk about infix systems. For example: I really like HP calculators,
by falcrist 4y ago
There's a lot of exaggeration that goes on with certain fans of postfix systems when they talk about infix systems.
For example: I really like HP calculators, so I'm in several facebook groups for fans of RPN/RPL and HP specifically. Sometimes a few of them go way too far out of their way to try to demonstrate how inferior algebraic systems must be.
For the record, my copy of K&R wants to open into either section 7.6 or appendix B. No idea what this says about me, though.
- michaelcampbell 4y agoIndeed, different strokes for different uses. I "grokked" RPN pretty early in my career and use it for all my calculator stuff... only. infix for programming languages is equally comfortable for me. I still have to think and study quite hard the prefix LISP notation. I get it, it's just not internalized like the other 2.